“Take a stand against intolerance and for our American values. Say it with pride: I support democracy in America. I support working people in America. I support opportunity in America. And I support Barack Obama for another four years as president of the United States of America!” PeopleYearsStatesAmericaValuesOpportunityPresidentUnitedUnited StatesSupportDemocracyFourPrideBarackFour YearsIntoleranceUnited States Of AmericaAmerican ValuesDemocracy In AmericaOpportunity In America Author:Richard Trumka
“The criminal justice system is accurately symbolized by a large sculpture that sits at the foot of the United States attorney's building: four metal circles that interlock. The wheels of justice, as it were, frozen in legal and social gridlock.” StatesSocialJusticeUnitedUnited StatesFourFeetBuildingCriminalsCirclesWheelsMetalsFrozenSculptureAttorneyJustice SystemCriminal JusticeCriminal Justice SystemGridlock Author:Jonathan Larson
“I believe that the Union Flag should change now to reflect the four nations of the United Kingdom - England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales” ShouldBelieveI BelieveNationsUnitedFourEnglandUnionsKingdomsFlagsIrelandScotlandWalesUnited KingdomNorthern Ireland Author:Ian Lucas
“It's the [George Bush] president's fiscal policies that have driven up the biggest deficits in American history. He's added more debt to the debt of the United States in four years than all the way from George Washington to Ronald Reagan put together.” WayYearsStatesTogetherPresidentUnitedUnited StatesFourPolicyDebtDrivenFour YearsAmerican HistoryDeficitFiscal Policy Author:John F. Kerry
“I spent four years in the United States Army between 1985 and 1989, and I certainly learned how to survive out in the woods.” YearsStatesUnitedUnited StatesFourArmyWoodsFour YearsUnited States Army Author:Chad Coleman
“In an interview with Rolling Stone, Senator John Kerry, who is running for president, said that when he voted for the war in Iraq, he didn't expect President Bush to 'f--- it up as badly as he did.' Here's some breaking news, tomorrow former Vice President Al Gore expected to endorse Howard Dean as the Democratic nominee for president of the United States - and you thought John Kerry was using four letter words before! Actually, to John Kerry, Dean is a four letter word.” SaidWarStatesRunningPresidentUnitedUnited StatesFourTomorrowNewsStonesLettersDemocraticIraqVicesExpectedFormerInterviewsAlsRollingSenatorsPresident BushGoreDeanVice PresidentRolling StonesJohn KerryFour Letter WordsBreaking News Author:Jay Leno
“In a way, no matter who's in charge of the corporation that the United States is, the direction in which it is taken seems to be inexorable. So, you just get the job of being the front man for four or eight years. Now, most people realize that's what you are.” PeopleMenWayYearsMatterStatesSeemsJobsRealizingUnitedUnited StatesTakenFourFrontsEightCorporationsInexorable Author:Alice Walker
“Some time ago a publisher told me that there are four kinds of books that seldom, if ever, lose money in the United States--first,murder stories; secondly, novels in which the heroine is forcibly overcome by the hero; thirdly, volumes on spiritualism, occultism and other such claptrap, and fourthly, books on Lincoln.” IfsFirstsKindBookStatesStoriesLosesUnitedUnited StatesNovelFourHeroOvercomingMurderVolumePublishersHeroinesSpiritualism Book:Mencken Chrestomathy Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year - year after year - we have an average of two million automobiles standing in front of red lights with their engines going, the energy for which amounts to that generated by the full of efforts of 200 million horses being completley wasted as they jump up and down going nowhere.” YearsTwoStatesLightEnergyHoursUnitedEffortMillionsUnited StatesFourFrontsAmountRedStandingHorseTwentiesAverageEnginesUp And DownAutomobileDays Of The YearRed Lights Author:R. Buckminster Fuller
“I can live in Paris for four months or London or, you know, Barcelona. These are places that are like New York. But I don't think I could live in many places. When I had to make a film in the United States I picked San Francisco because to me it's one of the great cities of America.” ThinkingKnowsI CanStatesAmericaFilmUnitedCitiesUnited StatesFourNew YorkMonthsLondonParisSan FranciscoBarcelonaGreat Cities Author:Woody Allen
“After being thrown out of the house, four schools and the United States Army, I discovered that I was on the right track.” StatesSchoolHouseUnitedUnited StatesFourArmyTrackThrownRight TrackUnited States Army Author:Robert Downey, Sr.
“We're fighting a war on terror because the enemy attacked us first, and hit us hard. ... Al Qaeda's leadership has said they have the right to kill four million Americans,... For nearly six years now, the United States has been able to defeat their attempts to attack us here at home. Nobody can guarantee that we won't be hit again.” YearsFirstsHas BeensSaidWarHardStatesHomeAbleFightingUnitedEnemyMillionsUnited StatesFourSixDefeatTerrorGuaranteesAlsAl QaedaWar On TerrorGuarantees That Author:Dick Cheney
“As I was whizzing around the United States on yet another demented book tour, getting up at four in the morning to catch planes, doing two cities a day, eating the Pringle food object out of the mini-bar at night as I crawled around on the hotel room floor, too tired even to phone room service, I thought, 'There must be a better way of doing this'.” WayTwoBookStatesNightUnitedRoomsCitiesMorningUnited StatesFourObjectsEatingTiredPhonesBarsPlanesHotelBetter WaysHotel RoomsDementedRoom ServicePringles Author:Margaret Atwood
“Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth; and, at fifty-four, was still a very fine man. Few women could think more of their personal appearance than he did, nor could the valet of any new made lord be more delighted with the place he held in society. He considered the blessing of beauty as inferior only to the blessing of a baronetcy; and the Sir Walter Elliott, who united these gifts, was the constant object of his warmest respect and devotion.” ThinkingMenPersonsMadeStillsEndsCharacterUnitedSituationLordFourObjectsYouthFineBlessingConstantAppearanceDevotionVanityFiftyInferiorsHandsomeDelightedValetPersonal Appearance Author:Jane Austen
“The justification - the idea that we have a right to invade another country and determine another people's destiny - is frightening. And I fear really for the future of that occupation. What happens now, and twenty years from now, and forty years from now, given our case? People in the United States may feel like when we don't see it on CNN twenty-four hours a day, it sort of disappears. But it doesn't disappear for the people who have to live under occupation - and their children and their children's children.” PeopleFeelsYearsMayChildrenIdeasCountryStatesHappensGivenHoursUnitedDestinyCasesUnited StatesFourTwentiesDetermineDisappearFortyOccupationFrighteningJustificationCnn Author:Edwidge Danticat
“Forty four percent of Republican voters believe President [Barack] Obama was not born in the United States. They believe he is not a legal citizen of the United States.They believe his presidency is unconstitutional.” BelieveStatesPresidentBornUnitedUnited StatesFourCitizensRepublicanPercentBarackFortyVotersPresidencyPresident Barack ObamaUnconstitutional Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“Sixty one percent of Donald Trump`s supporters believe that President [Barack] Obama was not born in the United States.They believe Donald Trump`s lie about where President Obama was born, the lie he started telling four years ago and has since replaced with other hate-driven lies like the thousands of Muslims Donald Trump lies about having seen celebrating in New Jersey on 9/11.” YearsBelieveStatesLyingHatePresidentBornUnitedUnited StatesFourTrumpPercentYears AgoDrivenCelebrateBarackPresident ObamaFour YearsSixtyReplacedSupporterJerseyPresident Barack ObamaNew Jersey Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“According to the CDC, more than one in three women and one in four men in the United States have been victims of domestic violence. It is a widespread public health problem, and every year 1,600 women and 700 men are killed by their intimate partners. One of the biggest risk factors that domestic violence will become fatal is the presence of a gun.” MenYearsHas BeensStatesProblemThreeUnitedUnited StatesFourViolenceRiskGunVictimPartnersFactorsIntimateDomestic ViolencePublic HealthHealth Problems Author:Melissa Harris-Perry